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Bob Maar
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posted 12-12-2005 06:49 AM
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tmesis \TMEE-sis\, noun:
In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, "what place soever" instead of "whatsoever place," or "abso-bloody-lutely."
If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
--Shakespeare, Richard II
His income-tax return, he remarked, was the "most rigged-up marole" he'd ever seen.
--Frederic Packard
In two words, im possible.
--Samuel Goldwyn
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posted 12-13-2005 05:47 AM
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carapace \KAIR-uh-pace\, noun:
1. The thick shell that covers the back of the turtle, the crab, and other animals.
2. Something likened to a shell that serves to protect or isolate from external influence.
. . . a gauge for measuring the length of a lobster's carapace from the thorax to the eye socket.
--Richard Adams Carey, Against the Tide
Hannah Jelkes, . . . who wears an air of cool reserve like a carapace.
--Howard Taubman, "Theatre: 'Night of the Iguana' Opens," New York Times, December 29, 1961
Desperate to win his father's attention and respect, Kennedy became a hard man for a long while, covering over his sensitivity and capacity for empathy with a carapace of arrogance.
--Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
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posted 12-14-2005 06:16 AM
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paladin \PAL-uh-din\, noun:
1. A knight-errant; a distinguished champion of a medieval king or prince; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
2. A champion of a cause.
Once in power, though, Clinton stumbled repeatedly over obstacles created by the schizoid campaign he had conducted, in which he had cast himself simultaneously as the champion of a more conservative Democratic credo and as a paladin of the party's traditional activism.
--Robert Shogan, The Fate of the Union
Even Columbia University economist Jagdisch Baghwati, the paladin of free trade, calls for controls on capital flow.
--"Terrors in the Sun," The Nation, June 29, 1998
Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now.
--Robert Hughes, "The Color of Genius," Time, September 28, 1992
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Bob Maar
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posted 12-15-2005 10:05 AM
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hale \HAYL\, adjective:
Free from disease and weakening conditions; healthy.
Uncle Charles was a hale old man with a well tanned skin, rugged features and white side whiskers.
--James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The person whom the traveller had so abruptly encountered was of this kind: bluff, hale, hearty, and in a green old age: at peace with himself, and evidently disposed to be so with all the world.
--Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy.
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posted 12-17-2005 08:22 PM
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melange \may-LAHNZH\, noun:
A mixture; a medley.
Interspersed with diverse lectures and classroom activities were periods of financial difficulty, military service, and employment as a private tutor, all of which added to the curious melange of experiences that would ultimately blossom into his unexpected and remarkable life's work.
--Norman Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten
The smell in the car . . . was a pungent, sour melange of garlic, unwashed bodies, vodka, musty woolen overcoats, and Bulgarian tobacco.
--Fen Montaigne, Reeling in Russia
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.
--Carol Tavris, "A Remedy But Not a Cure," New York Times.
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posted 12-18-2005 03:34 PM
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vainglory \VAYN-glor-ee; vayn-GLOR-ee\, noun:
1. Excessive pride in one's achievements, abilities, qualities, etc.
2. Vain display.
Spurred by the vainglory of being the first person in recent memory to catch a Solovki canal trout on a fly, I fished with newfound intensity.
--Fen Montaigne, Reeling in Russia
As if to underscore the awkward mix of social unease and vainglory on which such claims are based, they are always delivered in the same triumphant tone: 'We have the tallest high-rise flats, the longest wall, the largest community of artists . . . in Europe.'
--Deyan Sudjic, "The race to be a Capital of Culture is a non-starter," The Observer, April 15, 2001
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posted 12-19-2005 06:36 AM
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sub rosa \suhb-ROH-zuh\, adverb:
Secretly; privately; confidentially.
sub-rosa, adjective:
Designed to be secret or confidential; secretive; private.
Unlike progressive educators of the past, who openly proclaimed their goals, today's multiculturalists are generally unwilling to engage the wider public in open debate about their methods, preferring to promote their agenda sub rosa.
--Sol Stern, "Losing Our Language," Commentary, May 1999
Second, Abramson argues that since a certain amount of jury nullification goes on anyway, sub rosa, it should be brought out into the open.
--Richard A. Posner, "Juries on trial," Commentary, March 1, 1995
The investigators said that a major purpose of the sub-rosa activities was to create so much confusion, suspicion and dissension that the Democrats would be incapable of uniting after choosing a presidential nominee.
--Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, "FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats," Washington Post, October 10, 1972
The atmosphere of gloom and dislocation only thickened, though, and Marty found himself in over his head in a world of shadowy fixers, sub-rosa deputies of the C.I.A. and the mob.
--Stephen Metcalf, "Fraud, S&M and St. Francis: A Riotous Bull-Market Fable," New York Observer, March 25, 2002
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posted 12-20-2005 06:36 AM
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digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world.
--Michiko Kakutani, "Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest," New York Times, July 25, 2000
[T]his week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites.
--David Whitman, "The calm before the storms," U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000
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posted 12-21-2005 05:26 AM
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confrere \KON-frair\, noun:
A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague; a comrade; an intimate associate.
At Father Kilmartin's death the book was left unfinished (a sign of the times: not in manuscript, but on his laptop); and the arduous but also extremely delicate task of putting it into publishable condition was carried out by his Jesuit confrere, Robert J. Daly.
--Jaroslav Pelikan, "The Eucharist as Puzzle," Commonweal, May 7, 1999
The reason for this was that our government, out of the weaknesses Kissinger himself describes, was treating that adversary as a confrere whose hideous character flaws could not be discussed.
--Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Was Kissinger Right?" Commentary, May 1999
Baudelaire knew that this brave defense of the much derided middle class, offered without a touch of sarcasm, put him at odds with his confreres; to them, after all,"that inoffensive being" the bourgeois,"who would like nothing better than to love good painting," had long been anathema.
--Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars
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posted 12-22-2005 06:43 AM
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querulous \KWER-uh-luhs; -yuh\, adjective:
1. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining.
2. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining.
Querulous Oscar rattles on, never more or less than himself, but never much more than the content of his grumpy rattling.
--Sven Birkerts, "A Frolic of His Own," New Republic, February 7, 1994
Mam is a tragic figure when transported to New York by her successful sons -- querulous, unable to get a decent cup of tea.
--Maureen Howard, "McCourt's New World," New York Times, September 19, 1999
Men who feel strong in the justice of their cause, or confident in their powers, do not waste breath in childish boasts of their own superiority and querulous depreciation of their antagonists.
--James Russell Lowell, "The Pickens-and-Stealin's Rebellion," The Atlantic, June 1861
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